Brickbat: Another Brick in the Wall

Officials with England's Bromet Primary School demanded that Kerry McCann drive 160 miles to pick up her daughter Holli, 11, and take her home early from a school trip. They said Holli could no longer take part in the trip because she'd not only eaten some chocolate she'd brought with her but shared it with a couple of classmates. Teachers discovered Holli's crime when they opened a sealed letter she had written to her mother that mentioned the snack. They immediately searched her bags for any more contraband.

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Schools will begin to routinely abuse children who are in possession of “dietary contraband”.

Because even though you can tell from the picture that this child does not have a weight problem, she has to be treated as if she does, in the name of “fairness” to the obese defective human waste she goes to school with.

That will happen here, too. Because it “wouldn’t be fair” to let thin children eat what they want, and only restrict the diet of the physically and morally defective. Oh, no, not at all.

Actually, as a fatty, and former extreme fatty, I enjoy watching people enjoy their carbs. After having gone so long without it, much of it tastes weird to me now. Like Coca-Cola. Gawd, I used to love Coca-Cola. Now it all tastes over-sweet and stale.

I swear I can smell the sugar when I get a regular Coke by accident. Although I mostly tell by color if it’s fountain. Regular Coke is a medium-dark carmel, whereas Diet Coke and Coke Zero pour pretty much black.

Here is the thing though, assuming it was real chocolate and not that brown waxy substance that Hersheys calls chocolate it is actually a good thing to eat, high in antioxidants and mood enhancing chemicals with a nice quantity of healthy fats and really unlikely to lead to your getting fat.

Schools have tried implementing Michelle Obama’s school diet in their lunch system, and they’re giving it up because the kids are throwing the food in the trash and they’re losing serious amounts of money for a system that used to make them money.

It’s like the old story about the dog food company where the president can’t figure out why their product isn’t selling, until finally someone at the bottom of the corporate food chain speaks up and says “But sir, the dogs don’t like it!”

? Everyone matters; people are very different in a number of ways, but everyone has equal status. ? Everyone has the right to high self-esteem. ? Everyone deserves to be treated fairly and with respect. ? It is important to ‘see the whole picture’. ? Everyone has the right to a fair hearing.

This brickbat description is not very accurate. Was it researched or did they just reprint the sensational article? Look at http://www.digitalspy.com/odd/…..olate.html and the comment by Belle1979 especially for a more likely version of what happened. — My libertarian take on this is was a field trip – not state coerced and the organizers should get lots of freedom to decide the rules. The parent then decides not to go if she doesn’t like the rules. I’d like it even more if the parent has a choice of schools to attend but that’s a different story.

Before the children went on the trip we signed a consent form that clearly listed unacceptable behaviour and we signed that the children would not bring any foods into the hotel rooms, this is because the hotel it’s self has banned food in rooms and set this rule very firmly to the school.

Breaking this rule would result in the school not being able to use that hotel again and therefore future year 6 children would miss out on the trip !

Oh, man, and you believed that shit! In the private sector, we do not miss out on an opportunity to make money because of some nit picking aside like that. It doesn’t do the hotel any social or economic good to behave like school marms themselves. Quite the opposite. No one who behaved that way would last a week in the service industry. You know how much money they stood to lose by banning an entire school who does a yearly field trip? Quite a bit, buddy.

The commenter feels compelled not tell us a half-dozen times that the little girl BROKE! THE! RULES! Apparently minor issues like what the rules are, whether they make any sense, or why anyone should actually care about the fucking rule are not worth examining.

I can tell you from experience that American teachers wouldn’t hesitate to do this given the chance. The rules they enforce on kids are ridiculous and mostly serve as scare tactics. I’ve seen kids in worse trouble for less.